A practical guide to better communication that will break the blackmail cycle for good by one
of the nation's leading therapists Susan Forward. Breathe a sigh of relief! Susan Forward
helps you identify and correct an intensely destructive and confusing pattern of relating with
those you love. I highly recommend this important book!-Susan Jeffers Ph.D. author of Feel
the Fear and Do It Anyway If you really loved me... After all I've done for you... How can you
be so selfish... Do any of the above sound familiar? They're all examples of emotional
blackmail a powerful form of manipulation in which people close to us threaten to punish us
for not doing what they want. Emotional blackmailers know how much we value our relationships
with them. They know our vulnerabilities and our deepest secrets. They are our mothers our
partners our bosses and coworkers our friends and our lovers. And no matter how much they
care about us they use this intimate knowledge to give themselves the payoff they want: our
compliance. Susan Forward knows what pushes our hot buttons. Just as John Gray illuminates the
communications gap between the sexes in Men Are from Mars Women Are from Venus and Harriet
Lerner describes an intricate dynamic in The Dance of Anger so Susan Forward presents the
anatomy of a relationship damaged by manipulation and gives readers an arsenal of tools to
fight back.
